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From: will.deacon@arm•com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: fix missing 'const' qualifiers
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:47:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171129114744.GB10650@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171129093225.tq2cbg6l6yupkeit@yury-thinkpad>

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:32:25PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 06:33:55PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 12:41:27PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> > > It was discovered during LTO-enabled compilation with gcc/ld.bfd.
> > 
> > What was discovered? Could you provide a bit more information in the
> > changelog, please? I'm happy to take this as a fix if it's actually fixing
> > something.
> 
> Yes it does. There's inconsistency in variable declaration and
> section type. GCC doesn't throw error for usual build, but if LTO
> enabled, build becomes broken, like this:
> 
> mm/percpu.c:2168:20: error: pcpu_fc_names causes a section type conflict
> with dt_supported_cpu_ops
> const char * const pcpu_fc_names[PCPU_FC_NR] __initconst = {
>         ^
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_ops.c:34:37: note: ?dt_supported_cpu_ops? was declared here
> static const struct cpu_operations *dt_supported_cpu_ops[] __initconst = {
> 
> And so on. Let me know if you need full error log, then I'll resend the
> patch with it.

I think it would be helpful to include one of the errors in the commit
message.

Please send a v2 with that.

Will

      reply	other threads:[~2017-11-29 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-25  9:41 [PATCH] arm64: fix missing 'const' qualifiers Yury Norov
2017-11-27 17:15 ` Nick Desaulniers
2017-11-27 17:59   ` Yury Norov
2017-11-28 18:33 ` Will Deacon
2017-11-29  9:32   ` Yury Norov
2017-11-29 11:47     ` Will Deacon [this message]

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